Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and
the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and
the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
Not exact matches
Marjane's personal
struggles — be they with boys, authority, prejudice or misogyny — are so
deeply human, so spectacularly told that you can't help but be caught up in her narrative, and in getting to know her, you discover things about yourself you never dreamed.
From another angle, you could see pathos in him, heroism in his
struggle, in his willingness to risk...» That project, of exploring the spirit and limits of being
human, is, of course, a
deeply characteristic quality of Western literature and philosophy, from St. Augustine to Thomas Merton, from Meister Eckhart to William James and Albert Camus.
Books like these, which delve
deeply into both the
human heart and the public square, can help us with the old
struggle, the longtime call to people of faith to look not only inward and outward, but upward.
Calvin understood that doubt was a part of the faith experience, because
human nature itself finds ideas about God and His goodness so outside of what we can understand: «For unbelief is so
deeply rooted in our hearts, and we are so inclined to it, that not without hard
struggle is each one able to persuade himself of what all confess with the mouth: namely, that God is faithful.»
The Danish Girl is far too purified of
human struggle to be
deeply felt; instead, it's just a collection of stunning actors going through the motions in front of a gorgeously shot backdrop full of missed potential.
Told with harrowing details, and a keen understanding of the sheer enormity of the disaster and its aftermath, it is also a
deeply human film, as a mother and son change places, and a father
struggles to do the right thing.
With the ongoing
struggle between man and monster and the trippy mythology gifted to him by Moore, Swamp Thing presents different creators with the chance to tell
deeply human and emotional stories in the world of the macabre and the supernatural.
Deeply committed to equality and social justice, Neel was interested in the
human struggle for survival, and in mankind's capacity for resilience in the face of hardship and deprivation.
The realities of poverty, the search for identity, and the universal
struggle for freedom, social justice, and
human dignity are depicted with a rare emotional intensity and a
deeply felt humanity.